Re: sh.exe needed to bootstrap on Windows?

[Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

  > > Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
  > > From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
  > > Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:30:32 -0700
  > > 
  > >   > 	(let ((backend (vc-file-getprop file 'vc-backend)))
  > >   > 	  (mapcar
  > >   > 	   (lambda (b)
  > >   > 	     (and (vc-call-backend b 'registered file)
  > >   > 		  (vc-file-setprop file 'vc-backend b)
  > >   > 		  (throw 'found t)))
  > >   > 	   (if (or (not backend) (eq backend 'none))
  > >   > 	       vc-handled-backends
  > >   > 	     (cons backend vc-handled-backends))))
  > >   > 
  > >   > Tries every backend in sight until it finds one.  
  > > 
  > > That is fine.
  > > 
  > >   > Am I missing something?
  > > 
  > > Don't know, vc-BACKEND-registered should be an autoloaded function
  > > that should not cause vc-BACKEND.el to be loaded.  So this code should
  > > not be the cause of vc-bzr.el being loaded.
  > 
  > But this is a mapcar that goes over vc-handled-backends, which
  > includes bzr.  So eventually, it will call
  > 
  > 	       (vc-call-backend 'bzr file 'vc-backend)
  > 
  > which will load vc-bzr.el.  Am I right?

I don't think so, it will call: (vc-call-backend 'BZR 'registered file) => it will
call vc-bzr-registered (which is autoloaded and it should return
false...).